(1 of )JV Macor, right gets a serving of bacon from Sydney Moy during the North Bay Labor Council's annual pancake breakfast in Santa Rosa, California, on Monday, September 4, 2017. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat)

(3 of )Selena Leffew, 12, is served some scrambled eggs by Sydney Moy, during the North Bay Labor Council's annual pancake breakfast in Santa Rosa, California, on Monday, September 4, 2017. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat)

(5 of )Sydney Moy serves up some bacon to hungry labor supporters during the North Bay Labor Council's annual pancake breakfast in Santa Rosa, California, on Monday, September 4, 2017. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat)

(6 of )National Association of Letter Carriers member Clay Cook and other volunteers make a hearty breakfast for supporters during the North Bay Labor Councils annual pancake breakfast in Santa Rosa, California, on Monday, September 4, 2017. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat)

At Santa Rosa’s 20th annual Labor Day breakfast, Democrats rip Trump

Salutes to working men and women and scorn for the current president were served in roughly equal portions Monday morning at the North Bay Labor Council’s 20th annual Labor Day Pancake Breakfast.

Federal, state and local politicians turned out en masse to express solidarity with about 200 pro-labor people who came in for a free breakfast on a mercifully cool morning at the Carpenters Labor Center in Santa Rosa.

Serving bacon in the food line was Sydney Moy, a school librarian and Classified School Employees Association member wearing a T-shirt that said: “A woman’s place is in her union.”

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, giving the first in a series of brief speeches, excoriated President Donald Trump’s anticipated elimination of the Obama administration policy that protects illegal immigrants who entered the country as children, calling it “foolishness on the part of this president.”

“They are as American as anybody here today,” Thompson said.

“I look forward to standing with labor … to make sure we deliver a better deal,” he said, citing the motto for the Democratic Party’s new agenda, “A Better Deal.”

State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said Trump is “diminishing all the great work we’ve done over the years,” while Sacramento Democrats are “making sure that we’re protecting” working people and the environment.

“We’ve got a fight on our hands, folks,” Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, said. “We’ve gotta get ready for 2018. We’ve gotta take back this country. We’ve gotta start with the House of Representatives.”

State Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, said the “best way to stand up to President Trump is to continue our progress in California.”

Daraka Larimore-Hall, vice-chairman of the California Democratic Party, affirmed the connection between labor and the party that controls state government.

“Every worker deserves the dignity and power that come from being in a union,” he said.